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📹Iranian news agency Mehr has published a video showing a direct hit on a girls’ school in Minab during US-Israeli strikes on Feb 28
At least 171 children were killed in the attack.
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🇮🇷Iran controls borders & is prepared for possible US-Israeli invasion — official
🔊Iranian authorities control the country’s borders and are prepared for a possible ground invasion by US and Israeli forces, head of the Iranian government’s Information Council Elias Hazrati said in an interview with Al Jazeera.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 US-Israel war against Iran: Day-by-day
Explore our map tracing the key developments that unfolded across the region on March 6 👆
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❗️❗️❗️Aftermath of Israeli strike on southern Lebanon's Al-Ghaziyah
A four-story building was destroyed in the latest attack on the town.
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🔥 Shahran oil depot in Tehran after last night’s strike — fires continue to burn as thick black smoke blankets the sky
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🚨🇳🇴Explosion outside US embassy in Oslo may be linked to Middle East tensions
An explosion occurred outside the US embassy in Oslo on Sunday, Norwegian police said.
Authorities said the incident may be connected to the current security situation, including heightened tensions in the Middle East, and could have deliberately targeted the embassy, police spokesperson Frode Larsen said.
No suspects have been identified so far.
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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES
◻️ Russian troops struck the launch sites of long-range Ukrainian attack drones
◻️ Air defense superiority: 13 HIMARS projectiles and 180 drones were shot down
◻️ Ukrainian losses: around 1,255 troops killed or wounded
Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE
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📈 Gas prices can skyrocket to $1.5K per thousand cubic meters due to Iran war — expert
💬 "With gas, prices of $1,000 and even $1,500 per thousand cubic meters are quite possible. We’ve seen such prices in 2021, 2022, and 2023. There is nothing fantastic about it," Russia’s Financial University expert Igor Yushkov says.
🔸 US-Israel strikes on Iran leave hundreds dead
🔸 Trump blames Iran for deadly strike on primary school
🔸 ‘Several American soldiers have been taken prisoner’ — Iran’s security council secretary Larijani
🔸 ‘America is trapped in the quagmire of its wrong calculations’ — Security Council Secretary Larijani
🔸 ‘At some point, maybe we will’ — Trump on ground invasion of Iran
🔸 US bases in Middle East fail to secure nations & become safety risk – expert
🔸 US-Israeli strike hits oil refinery in Tehran
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🇺🇸❌ US army can’t whitewash itself after strike on girls' school in Iran — experts
💬 "Investigations by the world press confirm the direct responsibility of the US for the mass murder of Iranian girls. Any attempts to whitewash the image of the American army are futile; its history is black – both regarding Iran and its partnership with Israel, which has been condemned at the UN for genocide," Mohammad Shams, an associate professor at the Lebanese University, told Sputnik.
💬 "The policy of intimidation they pursue is aimed at suppressing dissent even within the US, where the principles of freedom and democracy promoted by the West have been virtually destroyed," the expert said.
💬 "Modern surveillance tools preclude any possibility of evading responsibility," he noted.
🗣 'We want to pick a president that's not going to be leading their country into a war' — Trump on Iran
US President Donald Trump stated that he plans to decide who is going to be Iran's next president.
💬 "We don't want to come back every five years or every 10 years and do this," he said.
🚨 Ukrainian drone hits residential building in Russia's Zaporozhye region — governor
A Ukrainian drone struck an apartment building in the city of Vasilievka in the Zaporozhye region, leaving at least 10 people injured, regional governor Yevgeny Balitsky said.
Balitsky added that there are fatalities, though the details are still being clarified.
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🇺🇸Pete Hegseth hints the US may soon shift focus to countries in “its own hemisphere,” saying Washington has spent too long looking at distant borders instead of its own.
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🚨🇰🇼 Drone strike hits fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport
A drone struck a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, the Kuwait Civil Aviation Authority said, adding that no casualties were reported.
Kuwaiti defense authorities said the attack targeted vital infrastructure, after drones struck fuel storage tanks at the airport.
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🚨🇱🇧 Israeli drone strike reported at Beirut hotel
An Israeli drone strike targeted the Ramada Hotel in the Raouché area of Beirut, Al Mayadeen reported.
Lebanese media outlets said the raid struck a room inside the hotel.
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🚨🇮🇷Strikes on Iran’s oil depots amount to CHEMICAL WARFARE against civilians - Iranian FM spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei
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🚨🇮🇷Iran will not allow the United States or any other country to interfere in the process of selecting a new supreme leader - Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi
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📹'Hands off Iran': Anti-war marches sweep New York, Washington and Chicago as hundreds rally against US-Israeli strikes and demand diplomacy amid rising Middle East tensions.
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💸 First week of war with Iran cost US $6B — NYT
🔶 The first seven days of the conflict with Iran has already cost the United States around $6 billion, Pentagon officials told Congress, according to the New York Times.
🔶 About $4 billion of that total went on munitions, largely interceptors used to shoot down Iranian missiles.
🔶Israeli and US forces have reportedly struck roughly 4,000 targets across Iran, including ballistic missile sites, military headquarters and naval facilities.
🔶Despite the large-scale air campaign, US officials told Congress in closed briefings that Iran still retains about half of its missile arsenal and a significant share of its drones.
🔶 Republicans expect the administration to request additional funding from Congress as the war continues.
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🚨 Putin on Ukraine-EU relations: 'The tail is wagging the dog'
The Ukrainian crisis emerged because the West supported the coup in Ukraine in 2014, the Russian president said.
He added that today, Europe is reaping what it sowed in Ukraine: Europeans can't help but notice Ukraine's energy blackmail, but they're silencing each other.
💬 "It looks like the tail is wagging the dog, not the other way around," Vladimir Putin stressed.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 US targets Iran in bid to conquer Middle East – Iranian affairs expert
🗣 The US’ insistence on having a say in the election of Iran’s supreme leader highlights the fact that Washington simply does not understand how Iran operates, and vastly underestimates the Islamic republic, Iranian and Middle Eastern affairs expert Farkhad Ibragimov tells Sputnik.
📍 To be fair, Ibragimov notes, the US has a long history of overestimating its own capabilities and underestimating its chosen victims: Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc.
👉 As for the US’ fixation on Iran, it essentially stems from the fact that this large country is located “on a crossroads between Europe and Asia.”
💬 “A large number of logistical routes linking Russia, Iran and India pass through Iran,” Ibragimov explains. “Iran is one of Eurasia’s most important hubs where major logistical routes are intertwined.”
💬 “But the ultimate target of this US program for conquering the Middle East is Iran,” he points out.
💵📈 Oil market is paying for fear with price spike — expert
💬 "The current leap of Brent above $90 per barrel is, first and foremost, a geopolitical 'risk premium,' not a reflection of a new fundamental reality of supply and demand… The market is now paying not for a shortage of physical oil, but for the fear of possible disruptions," Doctor of Economics Igbal Guliyev tells Sputnik.
🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️ 🇮🇷US-Israel-Iran conflict: key developments
🔹 The US has "destroyed all of Iran's military aircraft and 44 ships," US President Donald Trump said
🔹 Iran is responsible for the deadly attack on an elementary school in Minab, the US president stated
🔹 Iran struck over 200 targets within US and Israeli bases and installations, the IRGC said
🔹 Iran's defensive operations are aimed at targets that are the sources of attacks by the US and Israel, Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani stated
🔹 Concentrations of American troops at the US base in Arifjan, Kuwait, have been hit by Iran, per the IRGC public affairs office
🔹 Iran will not give up an inch of its territory, will disrupt the sleep of the country's ill-wishers while defending its territorial integrity, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said
🔹 If the war continues, there will be neither the opportunity to sell oil nor the capacity to produce it, speaker of Iran’s parliament Mohammad Ghalibaf warned
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💵🇺🇸📉 War against Iran may starve US of aluminium — expert
💬 "For American aluminum consumers, the conflict in the Persian Gulf region means a disruption in supplies from there, which could drag on for a long time. This means they need to look for other sources to replace aluminum imports from there, which amount to up to 1 million tons per year," industrial expert Leonid Khazanov told Sputnik.
💬 "Therefore, we should expect a decline in production at American enterprises that import aluminum and announcements of force majeure in product shipments," he concluded.
🚨Aftermath of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon
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🗣 US bases in Middle East fail to secure nations & become safety risk - expert
💬 "If we look at American bases in the Middle East, we will see that they are constantly facing various kinds of attacks and do not protect the countries on whose territory they are located that effectively... For a long time, the Gulf countries had unwavering trust in the American security umbrella, but during the 12-day war, we all saw how untrustworthy it turned out to be," Turkish political scientist Umur Tugay Yucel tells Sputnik.
💬 "It is obvious that American bases bring more harm than good to the civilian population and infrastructure of the countries where they are located. They pose a serious threat to populated areas. When a base is struck, not only military installations are damaged, but also roads, railways, and vital transport channels in the vicinity. Moreover, there is an inevitable increase in civilian casualties," the expert emphasizes.
🚨🇰🇼 Kuwait air defenses intercept missiles and drones — army
Kuwait’s air defense systems are intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks, the Kuwaiti Army said.
The General Staff added that any explosions heard are the result of air defense systems intercepting incoming threats.
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🚨 Loud explosion heard near US Embassy in Oslo — reports
A loud explosion was heard near the US Embassy in Oslo, Reuters reported, citing Norwegian police.
No injuries were reported, the agency said.
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📹 Israeli drone strike on the Ramada Hotel leaves 3 dead, 6 injured — reports
At least 3 people were killed and 6 others were injured after a drone strike hit the Ramada Hotel in Beirut’s Raouché area, Lebanese media reported.
The incident follows earlier reports that an Israeli drone targeted a room inside the hotel.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 ‘At some point, maybe we will’ — Trump on ground invasion of Iran
US President Donald Trump did not rule out the possibility of sending US ground troops into Iran, saying it could happen “for a very good reason.”
Asked about the prospect of deploying troops, Trump said it was “something we could do later."
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